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Unseeable, but inescapable: black holes already rank among the more sinister phenomena out in the cosmos. So it may come as disconcerting news that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way appears to be growing hungrier. Astronomers monitoring the colossal object, called...

A mysterious black hole—that has yet to be discovered—in one of our galaxy's spiral arms appears to have hurled a star across the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers has said. The scientists found a so-called "runaway star," dubbed PG 1610+062, located in the outer halo of the Milky Way—a vast region which surrounds the galaxy—far away...

This simulated image shows what the collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way will look like from Earth (Image: Nasa) You’re probably feeling as stressed, miserable and anxious as every other unfortunate mortal corralled here on Planet Earth right now. So perhaps it would be useful to take a cosmic view of the true insignificance of everything...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, just produced an "unprecedented" bright flash—the cause of which is currently unknown. Sagittarius A*—the Milky Way's central black hole—is normally quite subdued, with low levels of activity recorded over years. However, in May, scientists from the U.S. and Europe watched an...

(CNN)About 25,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered intensely hot, screaming winds near a black hole. And those outbursts repeat every eight minutes. It's the first time researchers have observed this around a black hole, according to a new study. The study was published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Across the Milky Way, there are millions of undiscovered black holes that are consuming matter from interstellar space, draining our galaxy of dust and gas floating in the voids between stars. Now, a pair of Japanese scientists have announced a plan to hunt down these "lost" black holes. The idea that there are millions of black holes hiding in the...

PARIS: Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most detailed simulation of a black hole, solving a mystery dating back more than four decades over how the star-devouring monsters consume matter. Coming fresh on the heels of the first ever photo of one of the giant objects, which are scattered across the Universe, astrophysicists are now...

A black hole may have been detected swallowing a neutron star for the first time ever, astronomers have said. Vast gravitational waves – which scientists think could have been caused by such a merger – have been seen ripping across space. Astronomers working on the twin Ligo and Virgo observatories, based...

When a team of scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole on April 10th, the history-making picture spread across the internet like wildfire. It also didn’t take long for news to break that a 29-year-old scientist named KatieBouman had played a key role in developing the image. And—unfortunately—this also means sexist trolls soon...

More Olivia Munn simply offering praise to scientist KatieBouman for the first black hole photo has turned into a thing. The Predator actress was one of many to share the photo of Bouman, a post-doctoral fellow at MIT, sitting excitedly in front of her computer screen while the historic image was in the process of being...

WASHINGTON — Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting its hot, shadowy edges where light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighbourhood around a supermassive...

Studies that could be unveiled next week are likely to zoom in on one or the other. Oddsmakers favour Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our own elliptical galaxy that first caught the eye of astronomers. Sag A* has four million times the mass of our sun, which means that the black hole is generates is about 44 million kilometres...

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Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age. Advertising “It is remarkable that such massive dense objects were able to form so soon after the Big Bang,” said Michael Strauss, a professor...

Scientists like Stephen Hawking had long tried to solve the mysteries behind black holes, but until now, no expert has successfully cracked the reality behind these dark entities in the universe. However, a black hole collision which happened nine million light years away from the earth could shed light on the nature of this space wells. The black...